NATALYA RYABINSKA: UKRAINIAN EUROMAIDAN PROTESTS AND THE NEW MEDIA

In late 2013, eight years after the Orange Revolution Ukraine has again become the site of mass protests, this time against the government’s decision on November 21 to stop the integration with the European Union and end the pursuit of the association agreement. The new media played a key role in the protests from the very beginning. This paper is a contribution to the discussion on how these new media were used during the so-called Euromaidan protests in Ukraine in November 2013-February 2014 and how the protests in turn contributed to the popularity of the new media in the country.